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For 7,964 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Autumn Tale
Lowest review score: 0 Argylle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,240 out of 7964
  2. Mixed: 1,556 out of 7964
  3. Negative: 1,168 out of 7964
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  1. The Loneliest Planet
    The movie captures a kind of tragedy of self.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Wreck-It Ralph
    It's pure plastic product from plot line to the pro forma 3-D to the tidy moral lessons - ersatz family entertainment as disposable as it is diverting. It made me want to go read a book.
  3. Flight
    Flight is a so-so movie with Denzel Washington as a commercial-airline pilot who crash-lands a plane while drunk, high, hung over, and horny. It doesn't do much that you couldn't anticipate just by seeing the trailer - the trailer is more exciting than the movie itself.
  4. War of the Buttons
    But when there's such a lighthearted, boys-at-play manner about the story's established aspects, it creates an odd disconnect from the World War II tolerance lessons that the filmmakers seek to add. War and persecution are bad, kids - except when it's all in good fun.
  5. Smashed
    The most interesting thing about Smashed is the way Kate, the movie's alcoholic schoolteacher, never looks drunk - at least, not the way drunk people do in the movies.
  6. The Other Son
    It's done persuasively enough that you wonder how you'd feel under similar circumstances.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Big Picture
    The movie feels loose and unpredictable. You're never sure where Paul or the story is going, and while that makes The Big Picture unexpectedly gripping for much of its running time, the shapelessness ultimately wins out.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Sessions
    The achievement of this simply told, exceptionally fine film is the clarity with which it portrays the drama of a good soul in an inert body.
  9. Chasing Mavericks
    Come for the surfing. Stay for the sainthood.
  10. Fun Size
    All over the map in the details it throws at us, and the level of immaturity it aims for.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Cloud Atlas
    Unlike "Tree" or "2001," Cloud Atlas offers more answers than it does questions, and by the end of its nearly three-hour running time - which flies by surprisingly fast, all things considered - it feels like the most feverishly expensive late-night college bull session ever. There are glories here, but they fade in the light of day.
  12. Paranormal Activity 4
    The ending steals actionably from "The Blair Witch Project," the movie that helped spawn these first-person chillers.
  13. Sister
    It's delicately made, yet forceful in its delicacy.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hello I Must Be Going
    The movie's sharp-tongued and softhearted, a Sundance kind of film that mostly sidesteps generic Sundanceyness.
  15. Somewhere Between
    Knowlton has landed on four stories that deserve to be told, and she's told them in a straightforward way that gets the job done, with obvious dedication and love.
  16. All Together
    The comedy in Robelin's movie veers from wacky and overwritten to truly, beautifully sad, especially the whimsical final sequence, which is as apt an existential tribute to the afterglow of Fonda's fabulousness as you'll see.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Wuthering Heights
    If the new Wuthering Heights makes you uncomfortable, that's part of Andrea Arnold's game plan.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Beauty Is Embarrassing
    An amiable if not especially urgent celebration of the life and work of Wayne White.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tai Chi Zero
    All this manic invention is great fun for a while, until Tai Chi Zero falls apart on the rocks of the eternal verities: story, acting, direction.
  20. Alex Cross
    Nothing works. Or some of it works, but that doesn't matter because what's working is so deeply, painfully boring.
  21. Atlas Shrugged II: The Strike
    For some, Atlas Shrugged Part II is a ridiculous movie. For others, it's scripture.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Nobody Walks
    Sensitively written, nicely shot, expertly acted, and intelligently ambiguous, Nobody Walks still manages to send you out with a shrug.
  23. Here Comes the Boom
    Kevin James's latest comedy doesn't promise any bing or bang, only boom. Take it at its word.
  24. Keep the Lights On
    It's inspired of Sachs to lean on Russell for a kind of oblique emotional depth. But it's possible to leave this movie mistaking Sachs's soul for Russell's.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Girl Model
    A powerful documentary that, with a wider scope and a bit more shaping, could have been even more powerful, perhaps unbearably so. What's there is strong enough.
  26. The Other Dream Team
    Clearly, there's a story here. The documentary The Other Dream Team tells it in a smart, lively, if somewhat hectic fashion.
  27. Alps
    With "Dogtooth," the point was: Don't try this at home. Now, the expanded lesson is: Don't try this anywhere.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Wake in Fright (1971)
    Wake in Fright is a monster movie, and the monster is us.
  29. The Paperboy
    I've never seen a movie like this. Not on purpose. Daniels isn't saying he's tasteful. He's just saying that his tasteless trash is as deserving of our attention as the tasteful trash we feel like we have to see. The whole thing's a crazy fantasy, like watching a porno dream it can win the Oscar.
  30. Sinister
    The clichés are still clichés. They've just been renovated.
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